Empire Newsletter

USD-denominated floor prices for both NFT collections have now gone more than 20x since December 2022

Keep an eye on liquidity into the holidays, Kraken’s Thomas Perfumo says

Things may look grim, but there’s still time for altcoins to turn things around in 2024

A few special ingredients go into creating a thriving blockchain ecosystem

2019 was a long time ago, and the “it” tokens have changed dramatically since then

And it might not be the ones you think

Even if $120,000 remains elusive into the next year, Steven McClurg’s hopeful that it’s only a matter of when

Bitcoin bull markets have historically been cyclical and, therefore, predictable

Crypto is “really exciting,” former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins said in a podcast interview last year

Bitcoin is now the “seventh most valuable asset in the world by market cap, just behind the likes of Google and Amazon,” GSR’s Brian Rudick said

Crypto’s liquidity engine is now worth over $300 billion

Bitcoin Jesus is arguing that the Department of Justice’s tax fraud charges are “unconstitutional”

Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi had an interesting read-through about the interest in XRP and how that translates into this broader cycle

Since Trump’s win, Coinbase has made 16 listing announcements specific to the US

Coming back in the future, retail “might look much more like a general risk-on sentiment,” WisdomTree’s Jason Guthrie said

The altcoin market just posted its best weekly performance against bitcoin for this entire cycle

Forta founder Andy Beal breaks down how cybersecurity is evolving in the Web3 era

ParaFi’s Ben Forman and Kevin Yedid-Botton break down their biggest predictions for the Empire podcast

Ledn’s John Glover gives some price targets to watch for bitcoin

The most brutal drawdowns have historically happened at the tail end of bull runs

MicroStrategy announced that it purchased 55,500 bitcoin last week, but that didn’t quite push BTC over the 6-figure edge

Bitcoin nears $100k two weeks after CZ tweeted gm. Coincidence?

HashKey Capital’s Jupiter Zheng highlighted three success areas he’s watching: Ethereum, Solana and certain tokens in DeFi

If gold remains steady today, a single move from bitcoin to $98,500 would do it